Bug#424042: epiphany-browser: "File"->"Save As..." causes browser to freeze and to eat all my memory

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:05:21PM +0200, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:45:00PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> > Package: epiphany-browser
> > Version: 2.18.1-2
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When saving a page to disk with epiphany, the browser hangs and starts
> > writing a huge file filled with &#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;.
> > 
> > I can save the same page with iceweasel without problem.
> > 
> > This is reproducible easily (nearly 100%) with big pages (an example is
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/231896/bigpage ).
> > 
> > The beginning of the output file is normal, but then something breaks.
> > With the URL above:
> > Church of the Subgenius, with its slogan &#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;[....]
> 
> Looks like an infinite loop in the nsNativeUConvService.cpp in libxul...

Not necessarily in, but probably due to.

Mike